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the whole, we are disposed to regard ' Legendary Lore' as the best portion of the work.

Starlight Stories. By Hob. Illustrated by Dorothy

Hilton. (De La More Press.)

THIS collection of fairy stories is readable and agreeable. The illustrations of Dorothy Hilton those in colour especially render the volume con- taining them attractive.

Author and Printer. By F. Howard Collins.

(Frowde.)

THIS useful little book, in praise of which we spoke warmly at 10 th S. iii. 379, has speedily reached a second edition. It is a work of composite labour, the best correctors of the press having assisted in its compilation. To printers, compositors, &c., it should be invaluable ; and there are few writers who will not be thankful for its information or its hints.

The Law and Practice of Change of Name. By

W. P. W. Phillimore, M.A. (Phillimore & Co.) MR. PHILLIMORE has hit upon* a happy idea, and executed well a useful task. Besides being of high service to all who seek a change of name, it supplies a very useful list of cases and precedents, and is at once readable and authoritative.

A Guide to Tidesvell and its Church. By the

Rev. J. M. J. Fletcher, M.A. (Tides well.) A THIRD edition has been issued of the Vicar of Tideswell's guide to his own parish and description of his own church, popularly known as the Cathedral of the Peak. It has a preface by Lord Hawkesbury, geological notes by Mr. H. Arnold Bern rose, M.A., numerous illustrations, is well written, and of special interest to residents in and visitors to the district.


To our own regret, and to that of many of our readers, a familiar name must vanish from our columns. After an illness extending over three months, Mr. Everard Home Coleman, F.R.G.S., F.R.A.S., c., the oldest member of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, died on Sun- day last at his residence, 71, Brecknock Road, N. Born in 1818, the deceased gentleman was the son of an officer in the H.E LC.S. He was educated at Christ's Hospital in the Charles II. Mathematical School. By special appointment of William IV., he joined the Admiralty, where he remained five years, serving fifty years under the Board of Trade as Assistant Registrar of Shipping and Seamen, from which position he was pensioned over seven- teen years ago. Owing to an accident in early life, Mr. Coleman was prevented from qualifying for the navy. A full account of his observations and experiences at Christ's Hospital, which he entered in June, 1S27, appeared in The City Press for 16 Oct., 1901. The names customarily employed were those of his godfather, the famous surgeon Sir Everard Home. Up to his last disqualifying illness Mr. Coleman took an active delight in

  • N. & Q.' He was a contributor to the First Series,

though his earliest article cannot be traced. The list of his contributions to the Ninth Series fills nearly seven columns of the General Index to that series. He seems to have formed with special diligence extra indexes to names and contributions in earlier series.


BOOKSELLERS' CATALOGUES. FEBRUARY.

MESSRS. BAER & Co., of Frankfort, send us & catalogue of ' Rheinland-Westfalen ' and adjoining districts. It offers many books of interest to the traveller in an attractive region, dealing with the- legends and poetry of the great river. Some English volumes are included, and the collection of litera- ture concerning Cologne will repay attention. Ger- mans are celebrated for their interest in " views,' r which are noticed in abundance in this catalogue. There are also several autographs of local princes- and princesses to be had.

Messrs. Bull & Auvache send us two catalogues. In the first we find the Coverdale Bible, a good copy, 140/., and Nicolson's second edition of Cover- dale's New Testament, 8/. 8s. There are also several copies of Cranmer's version of the Bible, including 1541, price 281. ; another, 1549, 14/. 14-s. ^


by Jugge, also scarce, 1553, 16/. The woodcuts, include the devil with a wooden leg. The second


Foedera, Conven- tiones, Liter*,' 20 vols., 1727-35, 81. 8s. ; the Abbots- ford edition of Scott, 4J. 15*.

Mr. John Jeffery has some curious chapbooks, old" maps, and pamphlets. The subjects treated com- prise slavery and the West Indies, 1832 ; the Cor- poration of London, 1847; the unemployed, 1816; the National Debt, 1833 ; John Wilkes, 1767 ; and 'The Result of the late Elections,' 1831.

Messrs. Myers & Co. send two catalogues. That devoted to Engraved Portraits includes a very scarce portrait of Thomas Paine, 21. 2s. ; Mrs. Jordan in. 'The Country Girl,' 12<s-. Qd.', Macadam, the road- maker, standing astride on two posts, with bags of "sovereigns" under each arm, 5>t. ; and a scarce- portrait of Sir Humphry Davy, I/. 10*. Those in- terested in Vanishing London (and who is not ?) can pass a pleasant half-hour over the perusal of Messrs. Myers's Catalogue of Views of London and its Vicinity, including Montague House, Blooms- bury; Sir Paul Pindar's House, in Bishopsgate ; Bridewell Palace ; Buckingham Palace, when Buckingham House; Carlton House ; Northumber- land House ; election scene atCovent Garden ; Cato Street, Edgvvare Road, the scene of the conspiracy ; the Marshalsea Prison ; old views of the Strand,. Regent Street, c.

Mr. Ludwig Rosenthal, of Munich, sends us the- fourth part of his latest Catalogue of Catholic Theology, which includes headings from Marca to Rosellis. As usual, he offers several fine incunabula and MSS-, such as a ' Martyrologium Romano- Seraphicum,' of about the middle of the thirteenth, century, in red, blue and black (1000 m.) ; and an original MS. on the ritual of the Armenian Church,. ' Mashtots ' (500 m.). There is abundance of fine Missals noted here. We find also 36 vols. of Fathers of the English Church, 1843-51 (120 m.), and several Psalters.

Mr. Chas. J. Sawyer offers the fine classical library of the late James Bailey, of Trinity College, Cambridge, a friend of Person and Wakelield, some of whose annotations are in the books. Among interesting items are the ^Sschylus